Multiple roles of the mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase/mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade in Xenopus laevis

Development Growth and Differentiation

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 577-582

  Kosako, Hidetaka ^a,b   Gotoh, Yukiko ^a   Nishida, Eisuke ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Kinase cascade; Mesoderm induction; Mitogen activated protein kinase; Oocyte maturation; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

CELL MATURATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME REGULATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0030444688     PISSN: 00121592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-169x.1996.t01-5-00001.x     Document Type: Review

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